The latest cool addition to my collection: It's a 1632 Austrian 1/4 Taler minted in Hall. It's bigger than a US quarter, but smaller than a half. This design is extremely common in the full taler size (which can be found in nice condition), but not seen nearly as often in the 1/4T size. Features the Duke in armor holding a scepter and sword on the obverse and the single-headed crowned eagle on the reverse. While the picture didn't capture it very well, there is a wonderful light blue, green, and gold toning around the rims on both sides. The luster is superb and really screams off the surfaces. Listed in Krause as a 60K instead of 1/4T, KM-590, with no price in Unc, but $350 in EF. This example just arrived back from NGC and graded MS65.
That's another lovely one. I seem to remember that you're putting together a collection of 1/4 talers?
Nice one! So much `class' just oozes from that coin..... and yes, the fractional talers are generally much harder to come across than their big brothers, especially in higher grades.
Actually, I'm focusing on full taler coins and I usually shy away from the samller denominations, but the look of this one just blew me away. This design is found frequently in full taler size, but most examples are found white which I find rather unnatural looking. I've passed on an MS65 and MS66 example of the full taler because they didn't look right all white. As I get time I'll be imaging coins in my collection and I'll post them here. I just need to find the time to image them and also get them out of the bank box.
